Robert Ballard’s TED Talk on ocean exploration

A number of people have emailed me this awesome video, and it was posted [on the forums](http://www.seasteading.org/interact/forums/community/feedback-tsi/robert-ballard). Some quotes from [Robert Ballard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ballard):

_”Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.”_

_”The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we’re only now penetrating it.”_

**”My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!”**

He even had a seastead design slide associated with that final statement, pictured at right. We will definitely contact him to ask if he wants to speak at our conference or work with us in some way.